To Blizzard:
SOM has been dead for for months and official closed down for a month, and we still have no event received the courtesy of a short, polite response.
You could say Season 2 will be back in the future with no determined date, you could say we scraped the season concept altogether, but you chose to say nothing Blizzard.
You spout on social media that you are a “changed” company, and this is a “new era”, but its a load of crap at this point. You don’t care about the classic fanbase and feel that we should just be grateful we were appeased.
You refuse to hire actual GMs to police your game and handle the bot situation even though you charge us a monthly subscription fee as well as keep a lucrative in-game shop. Instead you just make posts that you are banning bots but anyone who has a few minutes to look in game can see that you don’t even kind of have a handle on the situation, nor do we think you even care.
As a company you are simply pompous, callous, and seem to have malice against the outspoken playerbase as a whole. Yes, as a playerbase we are generally loud and outspoken; sometimes rude and demanding. However, everyone in the gaming industry knows this is a GOOD sign because people are passionate about your game. Instead, you refused to speak to your customers and playerbase and squelch any passion leftover after the irritation and condescension sits in.
Is this overly dramatic? Maybe. I have spent my childhood and now adult life supporting Blizzard hoping one day for a return to a miniscule portion of what Blizzard used to be. Hoping that maybe after all of these proposed changes and court cases that this could be the catalyst of a return, but I was sadly let down. If all of this couldn’t actually spur a change, I just don’t think anything can.
I have always taken breaks here and there over the years, especially when I wasn’t thrilled about retail changes year after year, but I never wanted to quit the franchise, let alone the entire company, but here I am trying to vent on forums and get some closure to move on.
To The Community:
Classic WoW will always be a great memory in my mind and heart. It was my childhood, and even a small connection to my father who passed away a few years back. I grew up playing Lost Vikings and Warcraft 1-3 and still cherish those memories to this day.
While the Classic Community, like any community has a few bad eggs, I adore and love this community. Some have been part of my weird, adopted, gaming family for 1-2 decades now at this point. I just want to say - Y’ALL ROCK! You are a passionate and chill community at the heart from the casual to the hardcore. While some of us may disagree on the game’s direction, we all simply want the game to be the great game it could be. I wish I could still hang out on the forums, but due to not wanting to renew my subscription, I may simply be a lurker from time to time hoping you all finally get the support and changes to the game you all deserve.
Anyhow, while nobody may have asked, and some may want my gold
, I wanted to say a heartfelt farewell to the community (at least on the forums and in-game). The Blizzard community has been a part of my life since the early 90s and the WoW community since even before the release in 2004. I will be moving on for the future, but genuinely hope this game changes to be the hobby everyone desires. Love ya’ll and best wishes!
– Knetik, Frostpyro, Adrin, Annoras, Malvek, Korren (whatever tag I knew you from)
and less angry old man but i hear your read on it and respect how you internalize the world around you 